buthead(1)

buthead1

Copies all but the first few lines

Usage

buthead count

bh count

Examples

buthead 5 <file-with-5-line-header >file-without-header
seq 5 | buthead 3

Overview

Buthead copies all but the first count lines of stdin to stdout.

Diagnostics

Terminates gracefully if EOF encountered within first count lines.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0–13

Author

Written by Barak A. Pearlmutter on April 1.

Bugs

Functionality overlaps with tail -n +count or awk '(NR>count)' or sed 1,countd

From buthead 1.1-7 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.